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College graduation is a huge milestone. When we walk across that stage to get our degree, we walk for ourselves and our ancestors who weren't allowed in as students.

But that doesn't mean they weren't there.

I'm Len, and this is Two Minute Black History, what you didn't learn in school.

Let's talk about exploitation.

Predominantly white universities like Brown and Harvard receive substantial funding from families that made their fortunes in the slave trade

and slavery. Other universities like Georgetown later offered free tuition to students because of

the millions of dollars they had made by exploiting the labor of enslaved Africans. In 2016,

Georgetown revealed one of his presidents sold 272 enslaved persons to save the university from bankruptcy.

And what about academic plantations? In some ways, being enslaved on a campus was comparable to working on a plantation.

Enslaved Africans worked grueling hours, cooking, cleaning, tending fires, drawing water,

washing clothes, repairing buildings, and performing countless other tasks for faculty, staff, and students.

Which of course, leads us to abuse.

On numerous college campuses, enslaved persons were whipped, dismembered, branded,

sexually assaulted, and sold away from their families.

Some enslaved people were so severely traumatized that they took their own lives.

In 2024, no black student should have to pay for college tuition, books, supplies, or room and board.

This is the bare minimum for reparations.

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